Dan Gillmor wrote an interesting post entitled Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization, and I’m a fan of number four:
4. We would create a service to notify online readers, should they choose to sign up for it, of errors we’ve learned about in our journalism. Users of this service could choose to be notified of major errors only (in our judgement) or all errors, however insignificant we may believe them to be.
I created a system like this for the Regret The Error book. Slate’s Jack Shafer also offers an RSS feed for his corrections. It’s an easy thing to do, and it’s a shame that so few media organizations offer a feed or email subscription for their corrections.
